Labour productivity growth in the service sector has been low relative to manufacturing. This is explained in part by … inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Increasing productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 67% of … boost productivity in service industries with high growth potential, such as telecommunications and financial and business. …

entry and exit in enhancing aggregate productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The main findings of this study … existing studies on other countries, plant turnover reflects underlying productivity differentials in Korean manufacturing … account for as much as 45 and 65 per cent in manufacturing productivity growth during cyclical upturn and downturn …

industries over the 1970-1992 period. The paper extends the analysis used in previous studies based on nominal productivity …

education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do … productivity. …

Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector …

employees to stay at firms beyond the age of 50. Making the wage system more dependent on productivity and less on seniority and …

factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at …